You’ve got to do your own growing no matter how tall your father was.

More Irish Proverbs

• May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without benefit of scratching.
• May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
• The friend that can be bought is not worth buying.
• A good word never broke a tooth.
• Two people shorten the road.
• May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
• What butter and whiskey won’t cure, there is no cure for.
• Beautiful young people are acts of nature but beautiful old people are works of art.
• If you buy what you don’t need, you might have to sell what you do.
• A face without freckles is like a sky without stars.
• Here’s to me, and here’s to you. And here’s to love and laughter. I’ll be true as long as you. And not one moment after.
• May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, and never catch up.
• However long the day, the evening will come.
• If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next.
• Soft words butter no parsnips but they won’t harden the heart of the cabbage either.
• The light heart lives long.
• If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
• All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
• Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden.
• Lie down with dogs and you’ll rise with fleas.
• Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.
• Better good manners than good looks.
• It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
• A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle.
• May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
• When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
• Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!